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I also noticed, that the Bluetooth menu bar icon was in the “Bluetooth offline” state¹, which was the strange. As suggested, I restarted my mac. At least I tried.

The mac did not even proceed to the gray screen showing the Apple logo. To make it even worse, non of the keyboards connected seemed to affect the boot process, I was unable to go into Single User Mode, Verbose Mode or the reset the PRAM². The only thing that worked was Safe Boot, unhappily the login mask didn’t respond to my input, so I couldn’t log in.

After I tried everything a few more times with different external keyboard setups I once was able to log in and set the boot parameter to verbose with the

$ sudo nvram boot-args=-v

command and while rebooting, I saw some error — all of them regarding kIOUSBHighSpeedSplitError, kIOReturnNotResponding or the following message:

The IOUSBFamily was not able to enumerate a device.

What the f*ck do you want to tell us?

Ok, here is the point of this post:

I gave up on fixing the error by myself (and my colleagues at Boinx Software[^3], thanks for your help!) so I looked for an appointment at the Munich Apple Store. The next available date was next week, 5 workdays from now.

Srsly, WTF? How does Apple believe someone can easily wait 5 workdays only to have his problem be looked at? I mean, after this time that doesn’t mean that I can resume working, can I?

It’s a shame that Apple has no plan or service for emergency cases in which it’s clear the device has to be physically repaired. Not even to mention that it’s absolutely out of the question that a 4 week old device stops working and the only service provided is, that the Apple Store Employee sets up a Genius Bar appointment for me (thanks, I am somewhat able to click through apple.com by myself).

I am actually asking myself whether Apple really cares about people earning money with their Hard- and Software. (Of course I have backups, but switching my workflow to my other mac won’t be exactly a trivial point which can be done in 5 minutes)

Any similar experiences?

First you should delete your current spotlight index.

Go to System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Privacy. At this point you have to add your Hardrive to the provided list in order to prevent it from being indexed by Spotlight. It could be that a few Macs will start working correctly after excluding the hard drive again. If not you should go to terminal, and deleting the index manually. This can be done with:

$ sudo mdutil -E /

After entering your Password Spotlight will try to reindex your Hardrive. At this Point some more User will get a working Search back. The few People (including me) wich get a error like:

Error: unable to perform operation. (-1)
No index.

Now, perform

$ sudo rm -r /.Spotlight-V100

to delete the wonky Spotlight Index. Now restart your Mac and hope that it will be properly reindexed.

This guest post was written by Marcel Riedlinger¹, so all the flattr revenue for this post will go to him ;)

Download, Build & Install

Update 1:

Get the 2.2.0p6 source, unpack, configure and install it via

$ wget https://github.com/jrmithdobbs/netatalk-2-2-0-p6/tarball/master
$ tar -xzf master
$ rm master
$ cd jrmithdobbs-netatalk-2-2-0-p6*
$ ./configure
$ make $ sudo make install

Then continue from after the 2.2.0b4 installation instructions.

Deprecated:

You can get the 2.2.0b4 build via

$ wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/netatalk_2.2%7Ebeta4.orig.tar.gz

and un-tar with

$ tar -xzf netatalk_2.2~beta4.orig.tar.gz

Now cd into the directory and your ready to build and install:

$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

You can now check which version your running via

$ afpd -v

If it prints that you are still not on 2.2.0b4, don’t panic³. In my case, I fixed that problem this way: I renamed the old afpd to afpd_2.0 and put the new version to the old direction by typing

$ mv /usr/sbin/afpd /usr/sbin/afpd_2.0.4b2
$ mv /usr/local/sbin/afpd /usr/sbin/afpd

It should now output

$ afpd -v
afpd 2.2-beta4 – Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) daemon of Netatalk

Where are my shares?

You may notice that this wasn’t all the magic. All of your shares will (probably) be gone. Fortunately, that’s no problem, because we can restore them. Just copy the lines as the bottom of /etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default to the new config at /usr/local/etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default.

Something wrong with the volume’s CNID DB

You may see this error:

What a pitty. But there’s also a fix for that — or let’s say several.

1. Rebuild Databases:

   In every share-root-directory and / itself, delete the .AppleDB cache file via

   $ rm -Rf .AppleDB

   It will be recreated automatically, which may take a little the first time…

2. Ensure that the CNID_METAD runs:

   Open /etc/default/netatalk with your favorite text editor and make sure the parameters are set like this:

   ATALKD_RUN=no
   PAPD_RUN=no
   CNID_METAD_RUN=yes
   AFPD_RUN=yes
   TIMELORD_RUN=no
   A2BOOT_RUN=no

3. Use dbd as cnidscheme

   In your /usr/local/etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default, your shares may look like this:

   /pool “Pool” cnidscheme:cdb options:usedots,upriv allow:user1,user2

   Make sure that the cnidscheme is set to dbd. This resolved the issue and my server was happy, up and running.

A very, very good place for answers regarding this topic is this blog post⁴.

The next step for me is to test the server for Time Machine compatibility, I fear there is some extra work required (looking towards 10.7). Stay tuned!

1. Use Units

One problem can exist if you you call your animation like this:

    $('selector').animate({ 'height': 100 });
    

Using this code snippet, the lags should be fixed:

    $('selector').animate({ 'height': '100px' });
    // or for a 'dynamic' height from a variable
    var number = 100;
    $('selector').animate({ 'height': number + 'px' });
    

2. Tweak opacity first

like you can see in this example³, the animation does not run as expected. However, this can be fixed by 1. commenting out the opacity part (which is not an option in most cases) or 2. by placing the opacity line on top of every block, like in this example⁴.

That’s it. In my case, both didn’t solve the problem completely (because I needed 2d transformations, which caused bugs whatever I did) so I switched completely to CSS3 Animations, which are widely available in Webkit, Mozilla and Opera (and maybe IE 9). I think I’ll soon have a post about that ;)

The time I arrived there were already 2-3 people waiting in front of the door, which seemed to be locked since the indicator showed red for occupied (the indicator on the outer side is connected to the lock on the inner side)

What I knew from the previous day (and the other people obviously didn’t) is that you don’t have to open the lock completely to open the door. That way however, the indicator doesn’t turn enough to show that the toilette is free.

So I could push the door open to let the first guy in and everybody was happy in the end.

Isn’t it ridiculous how the problems with computers, which seem to be so abstract and kind of unreal, reflect in reality in such simple situations? A bunch of men waiting (task 1) for another man to exit the bathroom and unlock the door (task 2) which will never happen.

Fascinating, how close the two worlds of programming and the real world get when you look at them from a different perspective.